
May 18—August 18, 2019
Kunst Museum Winterthur
Frozen Gesture With Karin Sander
Karin Sander Pinselstrich, fluoreszierend grün / Brushstroke, Fluorescent Green, 2019 Mobile acrylic paint Dimensions variable © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2020 Photo © Sebastian Stadler
Press Release
n 1965 Roy Lichtenstein created his famous brushstrokes and in so doing transformed the subjective gesture of heroic Modernism into a trivial comic drawing, transposed into the large format of a museum. The spontaneous movement of the brush on canvas mutated into a quote, the emotional exploration of depth morphed into a Pop surface in signal colors. The purported immediacy of the expressive painterly act thus became an ironic reflection on the medium of painting...